The Springfield Acres Garden Club was organized in 1955 in Springfield, Virginia. Estelle Bartyzel served as the club’s first president. The following year, they began publishing a newsletter, joined the National Capital Garden Club League, and held their first Flower Show. Over the last seventy years, they have landscaped and planted trees around the Springfield community including parks, health complexes, shopping centers, subdivisions and along roadways. They have a longstanding relationship with maintaining the landscaping of Richard Byrd Library and Grace Presbyterian Church in Springfield. The club has sponsored lectures, workshops, and classes on gardening and horticulture and written gardening articles for local newspapers. They have also hosted plant sales, annual flower and garden shows, Christmas bazaars, and other fundraising and social events. The club has won multiple awards and ribbons for participation in the National Capital Garden League Shows and other contests. Now in their seventh decade of operation, meetings continue to take place at Springfield’s Grace Presbyterian Church.